January 14
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January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year (352 in leap years). January 14 is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.
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Events [change]
- 1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad Dynasty in Hungary.
- 1343 - Arnost of Barbudice becomes the last Bishop of Prague.
- 1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
- 1639 - "Fundamental Orders": The first written Constitution that created a government is created in Connecticut.
- 1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- 1784 – American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
- 1814 – Frederick VI of Denmark gives Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
- 1832 – American author Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
- 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- 1897 - Matthias Zurbriggen becomes the first person to climb Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Southern hemisphere.
- 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is performed for the first time, at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome.
- 1907 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Kingston, Jamaica, killing 1,600 people.
- 1911 - Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the eastern Ross Ice Shelf.
- 1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
- 1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
- 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1954 - Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
- 1957 - Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaja is named the fifth Jagad guru (meaning world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches in front of 500 Hindu scholars.
- 1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.
- 1969 - An accidental explosion aboard of the ship USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
- 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- 1973 – Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
- 1979 - The first Paris-Dakar Rally reaches its finish line in Dakar, Senegal.
- 1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India for a second time.
- 1994 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.
- 1998 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
- 1998 – An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
- 1999 - Major snowfall affects Toronto, and Mayor Mel Lastman calls the army in to help with emergency evacuations.
- 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- 2004 – The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
- 2011 - In the wake of anti-government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government and resigns from office.
Births [change]
- 47 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman son of Mark Antony (d. 30 BC)
- 38 BC - Nero Claudius Drusus, Roman politician and military commander (d. 9 BC)
- 1131 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
- 1273 – Joan I of Navarre (d. 1305)
- 1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
- 1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
- 1507 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
- 1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
- 1699 - Jakob Adlung, German organist, teacher, instrument maker, musician, theologian and historian (d. 1762)
- 1700 - Picander, German poet (d. 1764)
- 1702 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (d. 1737)
- 1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
- 1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general (d. 1801)
- 1767 - Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony (d. 1829)
- 1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
- 1798 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
- 1806 - Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
- 1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish author (d. 1898)
- 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
- 1841 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
- 1845 - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India (d. 1927)
- 1850 - Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
- 1858 - P. J. Kennedy, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
- 1861 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
- 1863 – Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1929)
- 1875 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician (d. 1965)
- 1883 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1970)
- 1886 – Hugh Lofting, English writer (d. 1947)
- 1887 – Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician (d. 1972)
- 1892 – Martin Niemoeller, German theologian and Resistance activist (d. 1984)
- 1892 – Hal Roach, American movie producer (d. 1992)
- 1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
- 1899 – Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
- 1901 – Alfred Tarski, Polish logician and mathematician (d. 1983)
- 1901 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
- 1919 – Andy Rooney, American journalist (d. 2011)
- 1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
- 1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
- 1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1934 - Richard Briers, English actor
- 1938 – Morihiro Hosokawa, former Prime Minister of Japan
- 1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
- 1940 – Trevor Nunn, British movie and theatre director
- 1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress
- 1941 - Barry Jenner, American actor
- 1941 - Milan Kucan, Slovenian statesman
- 1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
- 1943 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
- 1943 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist, posthumous (after death) Nobel Prize winner (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Peter Fechter, first person to be shot dead at the Berlin Wall (d. 1962)
- 1944 – Nina Totenberg, American journalist
- 1945 – Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic artist
- 1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer
- 1946 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (d. 2004)
- 1947 – Beverly Perdue, American politician
- 1948 – Jocky Scott, Scottish football manager
- 1948 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- 1948 – T-Bone Burnett, American rock musician
- 1952 – Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Romanian Prime Minister
- 1952 - Teitur Thordarson, Icelandic footballer
- 1952 - Konstantinos Iosifidis, Greek footballer
- 1952 - Maureen Dowd, American singer
- 1961 - Mike Tramp, Danish singer
- 1963 – Steven Soderbergh, American director
- 1964 – Mark Addy, British actor
- 1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
- 1966 - Marco Hiktala, Finnish singer and bassist
- 1967 – Emily Watson, British actress
- 1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
- 1969 – Dave Grohl, American musician
- 1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
- 1970 - Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
- 1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
- 1973 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
- 1977 - Narain Karthikeyan, Indian racing driver
- 1978 - Shawn Crawford, American athlete
- 1981 – Pitbull, American rapper
- 1982 – Caleb Followill, American singer (Kings of Leon)
- 1982 – Victor Valdes, Spanish footballer
- 1985 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
- 1986 - Yohan Cabaye, French footballer
- 1989 - Adam Clayton, English footballer
- 1989 – Frankie Sandford, English singer (The Saturdays)
- 1992 - Hayley Agnes Toth, Australian (Shoe Obsessive Disorder)
Deaths [change]
- 1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia (b. 1032)
- 1163 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1131)
- 1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1231)
- 1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
- 1648 - Caspar Berlaeus, Dutch polymath (b. 1584)
- 1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
- 1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
- 1753 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
- 1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
- 1786 - Michael Warne, English composer (b. 1741)
- 1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
- 1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, world famous dog (b. 1856)
- 1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor (b. 1834)
- 1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (b. 1864)
- 1898 – Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
- 1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
- 1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
- 1934 - Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
- 1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
- 1945 - Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
- 1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- 1951 - Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (b. 1867)
- 1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
- 1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1960 – Ralph Chubb, British poet (b. 1892)
- 1966 – Sergey Korolyov, Soviet engineer (b. 1907)
- 1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
- 1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
- 1976 – Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
- 1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
- 1977 – Peter Finch, British actor (b. 1916)
- 1977 – Anais Nin, French-American writer (b. 1903)
- 1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (b. 1907)
- 1984 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
- 1988 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
- 1999 – Muslimgauze, British musician (b. 1961)
- 1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2009 - Jan Kaplicky, Czech-British architect (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (b. 1920)
- 2010 - Bobby Charles, American singer (b. 1938)
- 2011 – Mississippi Winn, American supercentenarian (b. 1897)
- 2012 - Txillardegi, Basque writer and politician (b. 1929)
- 2013 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances [change]
- New Year's Day in Eastern Orthodoxy, see Julian Calendar.
- National Flag Day and National Theatre Day (Georgia)
- National Forest and Conservation Day (Thailand)
